Typing and reading online in a non-English language with a non-Latin script is not always easy. Speakers of the Indic language Malayalam used to depend on buggy, badly rendering fonts to write on the Internet. But a dedicated decade-long effort has made typing and writing Malayalam on the Internet
Operating under the terms of one’s own language and script is empowering and a precondition for the continual development of one’s culture. And the stakes are higher than many realize.
Of the world's approximately 7,100 living languages, about a third is endangered, meaning that less than 1000 people speak them.
Even worse, only about 5% of the world's languages have fully entered the digital age in the sense that they are being used actively online.
